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What US model?
"Plans have been tabled to convert the NHS into a public/private enterprise, which critics say is based upon the US private health insurance-based system"
Note that it's only (UK-centric) critics who claim it is a US model, notably Allyson Pollock:
"Pollock said...proposals were an attempt to Americanise health care in England... Our NHS has been an international model for countries around the world".
This is opinion, not fact. It's not even unbiased opinion. Pollock makes the false equivalency that "public/private = US model". It doesn't. Remember, most of the world's health systems are public/private enterprises (even the NHS* has never been fully public, e.g. GP surgeries are all private). She's right the NHS is a model for countries around the world, but it's a model that apparently no other country wants to copy (maybe Cuba?), because it woefully underforms compared to the other options adopted by developed countries.
*Peace Be Upon It
What utter tosh again from yourself. Read up about Jeremy private jaunts to US Healthcare shows.
The ACO Model which Jeremy Hunt was trying to push through.
https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2017/11/1...t-properly-on-accountable-care-organisations/
Crucially ACOs will be non-NHS bodies, “designated” by NHSE, even though there is no statutory provision conferring such a function on NHSE.
The consultation failed to address many issues—why, for example, are ACOs necessary to achieve the stated policy objectives? No explanation was provided for why the powers already given by parliament to integrate services are insufficient to achieve the objectives.